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Word: nirvana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...free of patchouli-scented obscurities. To read about her struggles with a 182-verse Sanskrit chant, or her (successful) attempt to meditate while being feasted on by mosquitoes, is to come about as close as you can to enlightenment-by-proxy. She even has an ecstatic brush with Nirvana, which leaves her with a comforting insight into heaven: "You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year of Living Happily | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...still remember a Bhutanese official's voice shaking as he described the "low-class" foreigners his nation had watched streaming into its Himalayan neighbor. Nepalmed by what had come in through its open doors, a Kathmandu that had, up till 1955, barely seen a road was cluttered with Nirvana Tours agencies, 50-cents-a-night flophouses and restaurants promiscuously serving "lasagna, tacos, chow mein, borscht and mousaka a La Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Kingdoms | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

Harvard students will no longer need to mooch off Boloco’s free wireless to feed their e-mail addicitions on the way back to their dorms from Lamont. By the summer of 2006, even scholars sans Blackberry can reach the Secure CRT nirvana of perpetual e-mail checking. Harvardians, MITechies—nay, all Cantabrigians—shall rejoice: a wireless blanket will descend on Cambridge. As a result of collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, and the City of Cambridge, students and citizens alike will be able to reap the benefits of free wireless...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Off the Digital Leash | 2/7/2006 | See Source »

...league pitchers, NBA stars, pro golfers and Olympic hopefuls dedicate their careers to the search for this elusive feeling, devoting hours of training to "listening" to their body and "reading" their muscles?trying to construct a bridge between mind and body sturdy enough to lead them straight to athletic nirvana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: Getting and Staying in the Zone | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...Smashing Pumpkins . Siamese Dream (Virgin). Pearl Jam, Nirvana and other alternative bands released first-rate albums in '93; this co-ed group stood out because it dared criticize the sometimes pretentious nature of the alternative world itself. Cool albums tend to date as quickly as milk in a convenience store; Siamese remains compelling after repeated listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST MUSIC OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

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